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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.

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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk

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